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1. IN A CYCLICALLY OPERATED LABELING MACHINE, IN COMBINATION, A CONVEYORFOR CONTINUOUSLY ADVANCING CONTAINERS IN PREDETERMINED SPACED RELATION,LABELING MECHANISM FOR APPLYING LABELS TO SUCCESSIVE GROUPS OF APREDETERMINED NUMBER OF CONTINUOUSLY MOVING SPACED CONTAINERS EACH CYCLEOF OPERATION, A CONTAINER SUPPLY CONVEYOR FOR SUPPLYING CONTAINERS IN ALINE, MEANS FOR RELEASING SUCCESSIVE FOREMOST CONTAINERS IN THE LINEONTO SAID FIRST CONVEYOR, AND MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID RELEASING MEANSARRANGED TO ASSURE RELEASE OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF CONTAINERS EACHCYCLE OF OPERATION EQUAL TO THE NUMBER IN THE GROUP TO BE LABELED.